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USATODAY. com - Kenyans sweep Boston Marathon in wilting heat

USATODAY.com - Kenyans sweep Boston Marathon in wilting heat 2004

This isn't the first time we've seen this kind of wilting of White House officials under pressure from the political right.

Mark Potok: Shirley Sherrod and the Right: A Day That Will Live in Infamy 2010

ERROL LOUIS, The thing we know for sure is that as we saw with Congressman Obey, the Democrats are kind of wilting under pressure, they are getting hit from the left, they are getting hit from the right, they are afraid to get too far out ahead of the public when it comes to actually shutting down this war which I think the Congress is clearly committed to doing.

CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2007 2007

Harvesting silage crops can be classified as "direct cutting," where the forego is ensiled directly after being field cut, or "wilting," where the forage is partially field dried so that it contains 60-70 percent of moisture when stored.

Chapter 3 1976

The preliminary signs of injury, such as wilting leaves and dead twigs in mid-summer are exceedingly important because they indicate serious trouble before it has passed the remedial stage.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

Mama had asked Mary Catherine, as Catie lay wilting, draining herself of life.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

I watch a poor guy attempt to enter the basilica on his knees, clutching a framed portrait of the Virgen and a few wilting red roses.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

The best if not only option is to lend strong political, military and economic support to Lebanon's wilting March 14 coalition.

Amb. Marc Ginsberg: America's Fragile Arab Dominoes: If No Back Bench Does Washington Have Any Backbone? Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011

Are the ones these talking heads know all wilting flowers who are scared off of a career path so trivially?

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Big Bang” 2010

My branches will sag and brown, wilting needles on the carpet.

Tinsel Emily Smith-Miller 2011